HOLIDAY village giant Center Parcs has signed a major deal with a timber firm in Denbighshire.

Clifford Jones Timber has shipped 600 bespoke laminated timber lampposts for the £250m new Woburn Forest holiday village which is due to open in 12 months time.

The contract is worth £250,000. The hollow posts are made from Welsh larch at the company’s Ruthin headquarters in their new £1.2 million lamination plant.

The columns, made to a unique design, will light the seven miles of roadway that have been created around the 375 acre site near Woburn, in Bedfordshire.

The company are also supplying hundreds of smaller laminated timber bollards each with a light and the name of each home at the holiday village which could have more than 700 individual villas as well as a lake, 75-bedroom hotel, spa, restaurants, retail outlets and pool complex.

Nigel Bacon, sales director at Clifford Jones Timber, said: “This is a major contract for a very prestigious client and we’re delighted to have been awarded it.

“It is an endorsement of the £1.2 million investment we have made in our new state of the art amination plant which can turn out this specialised product which has all the attractiveness of wood while being strong and durable as well.

“These lighting columns will still be standing and doing their job in 30 years time and will still look good and they are part of a sustainable and eco-generated process which fits in with the working ethos of Center Parcs.

“It has been a very successful contract, so much so that we will be doing more work for Center Parcs and their landscaping contractors.”

Clifford Jones Timber are the UK’s largest manufacturer of wooden fence posts and employ 77 people at its bases at Ruthin, in Denbighshire, and at Gretna, in Scotland.

The company, which was founded in 1948, handles over 100,000 tons of timber from UK forests every year.

Chairman Alan Jones, the son of the founder, said: “Every piece of timber that comes through these gates is used. There isn’t any wasted and there aren’t many industries that can say that.”

The laminating plant enables them to produce glulam timber for the leisure and construction industries more quickly and efficiently.